Nonfiction

B.J. Hollars

B.J. Hollars

B.J. Hollars is the author of Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America—the winner of the 2012 Society of Midland Authors Award—and Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Tuscaloosa. His collection of stories, Sightings is forthcoming from Indiana University Press/Breakaway Books. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

B.J. Hollars

B.J. Hollars

B.J. Hollars is the author of Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America—the winner of the 2012 Society of Midland Authors Award—and Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Tuscaloosa. His collection of stories, Sightings is forthcoming from Indiana University Press/Breakaway Books. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

B.J.
Hollars

Bud Jennings

Bud Jennings

Bud Jennings completed NYU's graduate creative writing program and writes mostly fiction. He finished the final draft of a first novel last summer and has a short story in the fall issue of Educe. Previous work has been published in Christopher Street, Between C&D, and Stuff (Boston). An excerpt of his novel appeared in Coloring Book: An Eclectic Anthology of Fiction & Poetry by Multicultural Writers (Rattlecat Press). Bud has received support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Blue Mountain Center, the New York State Writers Institute, and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. He lives in Salem, Massachusetts with his husband, Rick.

Bud Jennings

Bud Jennings

Bud Jennings completed NYU's graduate creative writing program and writes mostly fiction. He finished the final draft of a first novel last summer and has a short story in the fall issue of Educe. Previous work has been published in Christopher Street, Between C&D, and Stuff (Boston). An excerpt of his novel appeared in Coloring Book: An Eclectic Anthology of Fiction & Poetry by Multicultural Writers (Rattlecat Press). Bud has received support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Blue Mountain Center, the New York State Writers Institute, and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. He lives in Salem, Massachusetts with his husband, Rick.

Bud
Jennings

Elisabeth Lanser-Rose

Elisabeth Lanser-Rose

Elisabeth Lanser-Rose is the author of the novel, Body Sharers (Rutgers University Press, 1993) and the memoir For the Love of a Dog (Random House 2001). Body Sharers placed among the top five finalists for the 1993 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for Best First Novel. She teaches in the International Baccalaureate Program in Palm Harbor and is writing a collection of dating stories, The Naked Australian and Other First Dates. Recent publications include fiction and creative nonfiction in The Tampa Review Online, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Sugar Mule Literary Magazine, and Ascent Literary Magazine.

Elisabeth Lanser-Rose

Elisabeth Lanser-Rose

Elisabeth Lanser-Rose is the author of the novel, Body Sharers (Rutgers University Press, 1993) and the memoir For the Love of a Dog (Random House 2001). Body Sharers placed among the top five finalists for the 1993 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for Best First Novel. She teaches in the International Baccalaureate Program in Palm Harbor and is writing a collection of dating stories, The Naked Australian and Other First Dates. Recent publications include fiction and creative nonfiction in The Tampa Review Online, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Sugar Mule Literary Magazine, and Ascent Literary Magazine.

Elisabeth
Lanser-Rose

John Proctor

John Proctor

John Proctor lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, two daughters, and Chihuahua. He's written memoir, fiction, poetry, criticism, and just about everything in the space between them. His work has been published in Underwater New York, Defunct, New Madrid, Numero Cinq, McSweeney's, Trouser Press, New York Cool, the Gotham Gazette, and the recent anthology Imagination & Place: Weather. He also serves as Sideways Reviews Editor for Hunger Mountain Journal of the Arts, and teaches academic writing, media studies, and communication theory at Manhattanville College.

John Proctor

John Proctor

John Proctor lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, two daughters, and Chihuahua. He's written memoir, fiction, poetry, criticism, and just about everything in the space between them. His work has been published in Underwater New York, Defunct, New Madrid, Numero Cinq, McSweeney's, Trouser Press, New York Cool, the Gotham Gazette, and the recent anthology Imagination & Place: Weather. He also serves as Sideways Reviews Editor for Hunger Mountain Journal of the Arts, and teaches academic writing, media studies, and communication theory at Manhattanville College.

John
Proctor

Kamilah Aisha Moon

Kamilah Aisha Moon

Kamilah Aisha Moon's poetry collection, She Has A Name, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. A recipient of fellowships to the Prague Summer Writing Institute, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, the Vermont Studio Center and Cave Canem, her work has been featured in several journals and anthologies, including Harvard Review, jubilat, Sou'wester, Oxford American, Lumina and Villanelles. She has taught English and Creative Writing at Medgar Evers College, Drew University and Adelphi University. She has also led workshops for various arts-in-education organizations in diverse settings. Moon received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

Kamilah Aisha Moon

Kamilah Aisha Moon

Kamilah Aisha Moon's poetry collection, She Has A Name, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. A recipient of fellowships to the Prague Summer Writing Institute, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, the Vermont Studio Center and Cave Canem, her work has been featured in several journals and anthologies, including Harvard Review, jubilat, Sou'wester, Oxford American, Lumina and Villanelles. She has taught English and Creative Writing at Medgar Evers College, Drew University and Adelphi University. She has also led workshops for various arts-in-education organizations in diverse settings. Moon received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

Kamilah Aisha
Moon

Laurie Stone

Laurie Stone

Laurie Stone is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction. A longtime writer for the Village Voice, she has been theater critic for The Nation, critic-at-large on Fresh Air, and a member of The Bat Theater Company. She has published numerous memoir essays and stories in such publications as Open City, Anderbo, Ms., nthWord, TriQuarterly, The Literary Review, Threepenny Review, Speakeasy, Intar Journal, Signs, and Creative Nonfiction. She is at work on My Life as an Animal, Some Kind of Romance and The Pain of Language, a collection of essays.

Laurie Stone

Laurie Stone

Laurie Stone is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction. A longtime writer for the Village Voice, she has been theater critic for The Nation, critic-at-large on Fresh Air, and a member of The Bat Theater Company. She has published numerous memoir essays and stories in such publications as Open City, Anderbo, Ms., nthWord, TriQuarterly, The Literary Review, Threepenny Review, Speakeasy, Intar Journal, Signs, and Creative Nonfiction. She is at work on My Life as an Animal, Some Kind of Romance and The Pain of Language, a collection of essays.

Laurie
Stone

Mark Lewandowski

Mark Lewandowski

Mark Lewandowski's essays and stories have appeared in many journals, and have been listed as "Notable" in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Travel Writing, and twice in The Best American EssaysHalibut Rodeo, his short story collection, was published in 2010.  Currently, he is Associate Professor of English at Indiana State University.  He has also taught as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Poland, and as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Siauliai, Lithuania.

Mark Lewandowski

Mark Lewandowski

Mark Lewandowski's essays and stories have appeared in many journals, and have been listed as "Notable" in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Travel Writing, and twice in The Best American EssaysHalibut Rodeo, his short story collection, was published in 2010.  Currently, he is Associate Professor of English at Indiana State University.  He has also taught as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Poland, and as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Siauliai, Lithuania.

Mark
Lewandowski

Sheila Squillante

Sheila Squillante

Sheila Squillante is a poet and essayist living in central Pennsylvania. She is the author of four chapbooks of poetry and her work has appeared widely in print and online venues such as Brevity, Waccamaw, Phoebe, The Rupmus, Literary Mama, Sweet: A Literary Confection and elsewhere. She teaches writing at Penn State.

Sheila Squillante

Sheila Squillante

Sheila Squillante is a poet and essayist living in central Pennsylvania. She is the author of four chapbooks of poetry and her work has appeared widely in print and online venues such as Brevity, Waccamaw, Phoebe, The Rupmus, Literary Mama, Sweet: A Literary Confection and elsewhere. She teaches writing at Penn State.

Sheila
Squillante

Sherrie Flick

Sherrie Flick

Sherrie Flick is author of the novel Reconsidering Happiness (Bison Books) and the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting (Flume). She teaches Food Writing at Chatham University and writes a regular food column for Pittsburgh Quarterly magazine. An essay about the Tam-O-Shanter bar in Lincoln, Nebraska is forthcoming in the anthology Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie: Midwestern Writers on Food. Co-founder of Into the Furnace, a writer-in-residence program in Braddock, Pa., she also serves as series editor for At Table, the food writing book list at University of Nebraska Press.

Sherrie Flick

Sherrie Flick

Sherrie Flick is author of the novel Reconsidering Happiness (Bison Books) and the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting (Flume). She teaches Food Writing at Chatham University and writes a regular food column for Pittsburgh Quarterly magazine. An essay about the Tam-O-Shanter bar in Lincoln, Nebraska is forthcoming in the anthology Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie: Midwestern Writers on Food. Co-founder of Into the Furnace, a writer-in-residence program in Braddock, Pa., she also serves as series editor for At Table, the food writing book list at University of Nebraska Press.

Sherrie
Flick